Eulian had approached Rebecca Stafford on Sept. 14, 2013 as she sat in her parked car, then leaned in and yelled at her about feeding the stray cats. When she threw cat kibble at him, Eulian punched her twice, then pulled her out of the car and hit her again as she fell to the ground, where she lay unconscious.

Video played at the trial showed the attack, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Eulian, who faces up to seven years in state prison, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 30.

Anthony Brutto first enrolled for classes in 1939, when tuition cost $50 – and he came back more than three-quarters of a century later to claim his degree.

World War 2, marriage, family interrupted his education.

I love this line from the article:

As for his plans after graduation, Brutto said he’d consider a master’s degree in time: “I’d like to study math, even if everything’s done by computers now. I was good at art when I was young too. There’s a lot I’d like to do. There’s plenty of time.”

Here's the deal:
UBS got caught in the Libor rigging scandal, got off scott free by promising to NOT BREAK THE LAW FOR 2 YEARS
and now it seems it could not keep its promise!
It rigged the currency markets, along with other banks, after the plea deal.

This is how Boomberg puts it:

Currently, UBS is among the five banks that are poised to reach settlements with U.S. regulators over allegations that they manipulated currency markets, people familiar with the situation have said. Four of them -- Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc -- will likely enter pleas related to antitrust violations, people familiar with the talks have said.

UBS’s cooperation in the currency probe may help shield it from antitrust charges in that matter.
However, the bank is still exposed to fraud charges in that case, and any admission of wrongdoing could also put it in violation of an earlier deal the Zurich-based bank struck with the Justice Department.

In a December 2012 non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. to resolve a worldwide investigation into the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, UBS promised not to commit crimes for two years.

6.... GM Approval Database is a web site that lets you look up a food and see where/if it has been GMO grown.
Very handy, since there is so much rapid change in this area.http://www.isaaa.org/gmapprovaldatabase/

I put all of these links into a Grocery folder onto my desk top, so handy when I make the grocery list.

If you find this helpful, perhaps a rec. for the swing and night shift folks here....?

The way the doctor acted was so true of the times.
He came in to talk to Betty and very curtly dismissed the nurse.
Then all he would tell Betty is she needed to get her husband to the hospital.
And then..that marvelous scene where her husband and the dr. are openly discussing the medical problem between themselves,
with Betty halfway across the room, sitting all by herself.

Absolutely true to the times then.
I felt my blood pressure climbing as I watched that.

The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance that it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers.

It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”.
So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing as a result of some strong emotion, such as terror or awe.

Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice,. in which Shylock says to Antonio:
“Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”.
Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.